The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission opened a door for small-scale solar and battery systems to compete in wholesale electricity markets, and rural cooperatives across the United States are now ...

There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar system, but most of it assumes a suburban house with city water and a long list of optional loads. Rural homes play by different rules, and ...

There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar and battery system, but most of it assumes a suburban home with city services and outages measured in hours, not days. Rural homes play by ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So when PG&E approached Gillogly about installing a solar- and battery-powered ...

Like many homesteaders on the island of Molokaʻi, Kailana Place grew up off-grid, on 40 acres of family land designated for Native Hawaiians. Living in repurposed school buses surrounded by fields of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi, Kasakula. The nonprofit has ...